--- title: “Someone is just dead!” said the little girl; for her old grandmothe… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: “Someone is just dead!” said the little girl; for her old grandmother, the only person who had loved her, and who was now no more, had told her, that when a star falls, a soul ascends to God. Who acts: Someone, little girl, that, soul. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Li --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/24/30/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Andersen's Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/) / [The Little Match Girl](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/24/) / 30 # Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Little Match Girl, sentence 30 “Someone is just dead!” said the little girl; for her old grandmother, the only person who had loved her, and who was now no more, had told her, that when a star falls, a soul ascends to God. **Who acts:** Someone, little girl, that, soul · **What happens:** be, say, love, not be, tell, fall · **To what, where:** only person, more, girl, God · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Little Match Girl. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Someone, little girl, that, soul), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg1597:24:30 # text = “Someone is just dead!” said the little girl; for her old grandmother, the only person who had loved her, and who was now no more, had told her, that when a star falls, a soul ascends to God. 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 5 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 4 just just ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 dead dead ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 6 ! ! PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 7 ” " PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ 8 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 girl girl NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 12 ; ; PUNCT : _ 16 punct _ _ 13 for for ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 14 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ _ 15 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 grandmother grandmother NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 19 only only ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 appos _ _ 21 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 23 nsubj:pass _ _ 22 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 23 loved love VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 20 acl:relcl _ _ 24 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 27 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 31 nsubj _ _ 28 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 31 cop _ _ 29 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 31 advmod _ _ 30 no no ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 31 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 34 nsubj:pass _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 33 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 34 aux _ _ 34 told tell VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 16 parataxis _ _ 35 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 iobj _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 37 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 41 nsubj _ _ 38 when when SCONJ WRB _ 41 mark _ _ 39 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 star star NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 nsubj _ _ 41 falls fall VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 42 , , PUNCT , _ 45 punct _ _ 43 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 44 soul soul NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 nsubj _ _ 45 ascends ascend VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 41 conj _ _ 46 to to ADP IN _ 47 case _ _ 47 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 45 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 48 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** *in a quote* | present | Someone | | | | | dead *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **say** *speech: express* | past | the little girl | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **love** | past · perfect · passive | | the only person | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **not** **is** | past | | | | | now | more *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past · perfect · passive | | more | girl | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient she=Topic | | 6 | **fall** | present | that | | | | | | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **ascend** | present | a soul | | God | | | | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to god=Initial\_Location | One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree. **Text:** «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/24/29/) - next →: [sentence 31](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/24/31/) - ↑ back to [The Little Match Girl](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/24/)